Silk price debate with a witty shopkeeper exchange
Mrs Schoppen asks the cost of silk and the sales gentleman states 68 cents. He quips the price is quite decollete. She questions decollete and the clerk replies yes, cut low.
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Newspaper
Junction City Bulletin
Location
Junction City, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1901
Page
6
Mrs Schoppen asks the cost of silk and the sales gentleman states 68 cents. He quips the price is quite decollete. She questions decollete and the clerk replies yes, cut low.
An odd note previews the Hatfate Exposition with claims of extiblestrons worldwide and promotes Hosterter’s Stomach Hitters as a remedy for dvapepala indigestion nervousness and related ailments. The ad asserts the product can cure and tone the system when honestly used.
A classroom exchange jokes about tastes and photography. A pupil compares love to family and pie while a catalog from Kirk Geary & Co. advertises hand illustrated camera styles. Kicker Jinks is ordered abroad for the mid baths, prompting political chatter.
Laxative Bromaquinine Taciets promises to cure a cold with a money back guarantee. The mock endorsement attacks fraudulent elixirs and asks a skeptical reader about past lives. A playful line compares reincarnation memory to geese with lingering quirks.
Bits from magazines and papers mix quips about poets and anglers and a Paris honeymoon. Jokes touch marriages, wills, and famous names with light irony, from Washington Star to Chicago Herald Record and Philadelphia Press.
A Maine Augusta dressmaker Mrs Addie Holt credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring her health after months of weariness and pain. She reports weight gain from 125 to 189 pounds and no recurrence of arm or heart pain after starting the pills. Notary seal confirms authentication. Sold by dealers or mailed from Schenectady New York with price 50 cents per box or two for one dollar.
In a bustling galley scene a traveler demands a menu and asks for what is for Vireatk fast as a cheerful waiter replies Calyen drains the kitchen and serves fried liver and deviled kidneys amid a lively exchange.
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